Efficiently control engineering information, work processes, and risk across the lifecycle of projects and operations to accelerate revenue

OpenText™ Extended ECM for Engineering (formerly Engineering Document Management) is an add-on to the OpenText Extended ECM Platform that helps efficiently control risk to engineering project scope, schedule, and costs. This enables owner-operators and engineering companies to gain faster returns on investment by speeding time to production and enabling efficient asset operations.

There are many industry forces that are driving energy and engineering companies to examine how they control their engineering information and work processes. These companies have learned to adapt to fluctuating and often cyclical commodity prices. When commodity prices go up, they shift focus to investing in Capital Projects. When prices go down, they shift focus to improving operations efficiency and Asset ROI. Every time there is a severe Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) incident, such as an explosion or oil spill, this drives companies to check their processes to help them avoid similar outcomes. During these reviews, many companies find they are severely lacking in consistency and control processes that ensure safety and compliance.

Without having effective engineering and asset information management controls in place, executing large engineering projects and operating the resulting assets can result in significant risk to scope, schedule, cost and non-compliance.

Extended ECM for Engineering provides a single, authoritative repository for storing and controlling engineering documents and work processes. The solution helps Document Control Managers, Engineers, Engineering Leaders, External Collaborators, and subsequent Operations Personnel to efficiently control engineering information, work processes, and risk across the lifecycle of projects and operations to help accelerate revenue.

Features and Benefits

Offers persona-driven dashboards and streamlined work processes that make finding information, getting work done, and controlling risk efficient and effective

Improves ROI and time to milestone completion through accelerated exchange and collaboration, both within projects and through the handover to operations

Increases production uptime and revenue by speeding task and project completion

Ensures a single source of engineering truth by integrating sources of engineering and asset information such as AutoDesk® AutoCAD®, Dassault®SOLIDWORKS®, Bentley® MicroStation®, AutoDesk® AutoCAD® & Revit®3D, and SAP® Plant Maintenance

Provides best practice configuration templates to accelerate project setup while allowing teams to configure to the unique needs of their projects and assets

Enables efficient exchange and collaboration on large volumes of content with internal and external parties while providing full control and tracking and unattended, secure, high-speed transmission, which speeds task and project completion

Enables easy report, chart, and widget/tile creation to tailor departmental and persona based dashboards that provide the information they need when they need it.

Enables geospatial content navigation through an ESRI ArcGIS integration. This provides visual navigation capabilities during project and operations ensuring intuitive access to the relevant content based on the location of an asset or project.

The optional Brava! Viewer add-on provides secure, web-based viewing and annotation capabilities for efficient review, approval, and production processes without the need for native applications.